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general's head in a medallion. A neat sarcophagus below is encircled with laurel, and contains the inscription.

On the right of the door is a monument to Robert Cannon, D. D., Dean of Lincoln, and Prebendary of this church, who died March 28, 1722, aged fifty-nine.

The adjoining arches are entirely demolished: the side ones have been attempted to be restored.

A neat design by Gibbs, in the centre is a monument erected by Mrs. Mary Pope to the memory of her friend Mrs. Katherine Bovey, who died January 21, 1726-7, aged 57. The principal figures are Faith with her book closed, and Wisdom lamenting the death of her patroness. Between these is a lady's head in an amulet of black veined marble. Over this the inscription.

Over Mrs. Bovey, in the window, is a figure of the imaginary Genius of the Province of Massachuset's Bay, lamenting the loss of George Augustus Viscount Howe, brigadier general of his Majesty's forces in America, who was slain July 6th, 1758, on the march to Triconderoga.

As it was not possible the artist could rightly imagine the Genius of a distinct Province, and as this happened to be an American Province, perhaps he would have been farther from the truth had his figure been more unlike "a representation of melancholy intoxication," though certainly Lord Howe merited a better companion to lament his loss.

Near to this is a bust of the Rev. John Thomas, LL. D. Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of this Collegiate Church. The inscription is in Latin, and rather long; and, as usual, sets forth the worthy prelate's innumerable virtues, qualifications, and "profound learning." The bust is very good; besides which there is a lamb bearing the cross, a chalice, sacramental bread, mitre, crosier, and books. This is one of Bacon's productions. Dr. Thomas died Angust 20th, 1793, aged 81 years.

Near this is an exquisite bust, by Tyler, of the truly learned Dr. Zachary Pearce. This bust stands on a pedestal, and the features are said to have a striking resemblance to those of the riginal. It is enough to say that this is the prelate who wrote

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the well-known "Commentary on the Holy Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles," a work of great learning and research, and highly esteemed among the orthodox. He died June 29,

1774, aged 84.

The arches, that remain under the next window, are coloured black. They contain the monument of Sir Samuel Robinson, Bart. of Kentwell Hall, in Suffolk. He died August 6, 1684, aged thirty-six; and another of porphyry, inlaid with white marble flowers and foliage of great taste and beauty. On it two very elegant children hold and read a label.

On the pedestal is an oval tablet adorned by inlaid scrolls; and this, I could just discern,* contains a basso-relievo of a north-west view of the Abbey, apparently well done, and two figures of Faith and Hope, on each side. The inscription, which is in Latin, I could find, by rubbing off a little of the chalk, denotes it to be to the memory of Dr. Joseph Wilcocks, Bishop of Glocester, and afterwards of Rochester, also Dean of this Church. He died March 9th, 1756, aged 83.

Near this is a monument, with a very long Latin inscription, to Dr. Thomas Sprat. He died May 20, 1713, aged 77.

Above these monuments is one of the most singular description, as far as concerns the design, in the whole cathedral. It is to the memory of Richard Tyrell, Esq. vice-admiral of the white. Mr. Malcolm has conceived so very justly of the design of this monument, that I shall make no apology for the verbatim insertion of his deseription: "To comprehend it," says that able critic," the spectator must suppose himself in a diving-bell at the bottom of the sea. When he has shaken off the terrors of his situation, he will find on his right hand the Buckingham, of sixty-six guns, jammed in a bed of coral. Directly before him, he will perceive a figure pointing to a spot on a globe, either intending

For when I visited this monument (August 1815) it was covered over with whiting, preparatory to its being cleaned and repaired; which latter it most certainly deserves and requires. I found a large piece of the yellow grained marble of the base, lying broken off, on the floor. It is now (Sept.) cleaned, but not repaired.

intending to shew where the deceased body was committed to the deep, or the latitude where an action, mentioned in the inscription, was fought."

The next arch is filled with a circular pedestal and bust by Rysbrack, to the memory of John Friend, M. D. He died July 26, 1728.

Near this, in an oval frame, is a half length marble portrait of William Congreve, Esq. placed on a pedestal of fine Egyptian marble, and enriched with dramatic emblematical figures. He died Jan. 19, 1728.

In the south-west corner is a fine monument of the Right Hon. James Craggs, Secretary of War in 1717, and Secretary of State in the year following. The statue is as large as life, and leans on an urn, bearing, in gilt letters, the inscription. His epitaph, by Pope, is on the base of the monument.

It would be useless to particularize the demolition of every arch and carvings under the windows: all the windows are partly filled by stone-work, exclusive of the monuments in them. The great pillars for the towers are formed by sixteen small ones; and the arches across the roof of the nave from them are extremely strong and massy. Under the last window of the south aisle is a door; over it a gallery of oak, pannelled, with small arches, and a range of quatrefoils; behind it a strong flat arch, in which is a door. At the west ends, under the towers of both aisles, are lancet-shaped windows: in the point of each arch blank trefoils; the lower part of that to the north is filled by a poorly executed figure of a bearded old man, in a crimson vest, and blue and yellow mantle: the colours, both of the drapery and ill-shaped canopy, are wonderfully clear and brilliant: under him is a portcullis and a double triangle; this is generally said to represent Edward the Confessor. In the south window is a king, completely armed, of the house of Lancaster, as appears by the red rose. Under him are the arms of Edward the Confessor: this is not the same artist who stained the other, if we may decide from the colours; besides, the latter is a more finished performance,

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though rude. This window was probably made about the time when that part of the nave was completed, which has key-stones of the Lancastrian rose, that is, between the years 1399 and 1461. If Islip had put them up we should have had the red and white roses; after all, the king may be intended for Henry IV. V. or VI. The above figures are generally well imagined, and the colours of the drapery very clear. On the right side of the door is a pedestal and sarcophagus, with boys of bronze hanging a medallion on a pyramid, by Cheere, to the memory of John Conduit, master of the Mint. A stoue arch has been turned over the west door, on which is erected a monument, voted by the parliament, to the memory of the Right Hon. William Pitt, who died on the 23d of January, 1806. This illustrious statesman is represented as he appeared in the British senate, habited in the robes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. To the right of the base of this statue, History, in a reclined attitude is recording the chief acts of his administration, whilst Anarchy, on the left, lies subdued and chained at his feet. The statues composing this group are of the proportious of nine feet in height, executed by Richard Westmacott, R. A.

Captain Montague's monument, the only captain killed in Earl Howe's fleet on the 1st of June, 1794, when a signal and important victory was obtained over the French fleet. The king and parliament in consequence directed this monument to be raised of the captain, who is represented with his hand resting on his sword; Victory alighting, is waving the laurel crown over his head; a trophy of naval flags hang over a basso-relievo of prisoners behind the pedestal; in the front of the pedestal is the engagement; on the right side is Neptune's trident, and a crown of oak; on the left a wreath of laurel, containing the word "Constitution." The base is guarded by two lions. On the left side of the door is a very good reclining figure, with a boy weeping by an urn; but absurd, from the Roman costume; it has the usual accompaniments of a sarcophagus and pyramid on the pedestal, thus inscribed:

"Sir Thomas Hardy, to whose memory this monument is erected, was bred in the royal navy from his youth, and was made a captain in 1693. In the expedition to Cadiz, under Sir George Rooke, he commanded the Pembroke; and when the fleet left the coast of Spain to return to England, he was ordered to Lagos Bay, where he got intelligence of the Spanish galleons being arrived in the harbour of Vigo, under convoy of seventeen French men of war, by his great diligence and judgement he joined the English fleet, and gave the admiral that intelligence, which engaged him to make the best of his way to Vigo, where all the aforementioned galleons and men of war were either taken or destroyed. After the success of the action, the admiral sent him with an account of it to the queen, who ordered him a considerable present, and knighted him. Some years after he was made a rear-admiral, and received several other marks of favour and esteem from her majesty, and from her royal consort, Prince George of Denmark, lord high admiral of England. He died August 16, 1732, aged 66.”

The screen which formed the enclosure under the south tower has been removed for a magnificent monument, whose base and pyramid are of rich Sicilian jasper, thirty-six feet high, designed and executed by Taylor, and erected by order of King George the Second, on the unanimous voice of the House of Commons. On it is a double arched rock of white marble, with laurel and plants growing in the interstices, cannon, anchors, and flags at the sides. In the rock are two cavities in the one a Latin epitaph is inscribed; in the other, is a view of the sea-fight off Toulon, in bas-relief, representing a fleet engaged, remarkably well done, both in the fore-shortening of the vessels, and the construction of their rigging. On the fore-ground the Marlborough is seen fiercely engaged with Admiral Navarre's ship, the Real, of 114 guns, and her two seconds, all raking the Marlborough fore and aft. On the rock stands two figures, the one represents Britannia under the character of Minerva, accompanied with a lion; the other figure is expressive of Fame; who having presented to Britannia a medallion of the hero, supports

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